ArcelorMittal Kraków steel plant

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ArcelorMittal Kraków is an integrated steel plant in Kraków, Poland.

Location

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Background

In October 2020, ArcelorMittal Poland announced a plan to close the ArcelorMittal Krakow steel plant permanently, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a main factor in their decision. ArcelorMittal plans to move production to ArcelorMittal Dąbrowa Górnicza steel plant.

Plant Details

• Private/State ownership: private
• Owner: ArcelorMittal Poland
• Parent company: ArcelorMittal
• Alternative plant names: ArcelorMittal Poland S.A. Oddział Kraków, Huta Sendzimira (predecessor), Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks (predecessor), Vladimir Lenin Steelworks (predecessor)
• Location: ul. Ujastek 1, 31-752 Kraków, Poland
• GPS Coordinates: 50.083849,20.096306 (exact)
• Plant status: mothballed in March 2020
• Start year: 1954 (age 66–67)
• Production capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
  • Crude steel: 1400 (BOF, estimated as 1/5 of highest production value given since only one of five blast furnaces remain. Aligns well with value for original blast furnace given.)
  • Iron: >0 (BF)
• Production (thousand tonnes per annum):
  • Crude steel: 1200 (BOF, 2019)
• Steel products: hot rolled products
• Steelmaking process: integrated (BF)
• Primary steel production equipment: coking plant; sinter plant; 1 blast furnace (BF); basic oxygen furnace (BOF) (# unknown)

Articles and resources

External resources

• Company website
• and https://poland.arcelormittal.com/en/who-we-are/#c191 Wikipedia page